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Summer Festivals and Concerts

The 2015 season of Spoleto Festival USA (May 22 to June 7) includes the world premiere of the opera Paradise Interrupted composed by Huang Ruo and designed and directed by visual artist Jennifer Wen Ma (who did the 2008 Olympics opening and closing ceremonies in Beijing), and the American premiere and first performances in over 350 years of Francesco Cavalli’s baroque opera Veremonda, l’amazzone di Aragona, featuring the outstanding Opera Lively interviewee Vivica Genaux (read her Opera Lively interview [here]).

Opera Lively has been credentialed as one of the official media organizations covering the festival, and will be attending both operas, and also two other pieces of vocal classical music: David Lang's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Little Match Girl Passion, and Giacomo Carissimi's Jephte.
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Here is a list of web sites for people who want to check out the various opera festivals in Europe, with their schedules and ticket sales. This is a 2011 list, but most of them happen every year so the links must remain valid; a few maybe were a one-time affair, do your own checking. Scroll down for North America annoucements:
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